Sewage fountain

 So we woke up this morning to floods in the basement.  The worse one was in what was the little bathroom, until it was dismantled in the great Mold Search, but it did leave a functional toilet, which appeared to have disgorged raw sewage all over the floor.  Also, in the laundry room, there were pools under the sink (famous as the sink that we once found a racoon hiding in when Grandpa visited).  Well, we got somebody to come about the sewage and he had to use various machines to unclog the pipes of the masses of [stop reading here if of a sensitive nature] wipes that had accumulated over the years, and in fact had to wrestle to such an extent that he literally broke the toilet and had to get us a new one.  After he left (leaving us to clean up [gagging noises]) the water under the sink reappeared, so we called him back, but he discovered it had nothing to do with the other problem, it was just that the pipe at the back of the sink had rusted out, so when the washing machine discharged into the sink, it just came gushing through.  So that needs fixing.  What an odd coincidence.  Lesson learned: "flushable" is a LIE.  The aftermath: